Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-10-13

The great Peninsular and Oriental O.
and O. Steamship Company employ
East Indian coolies to do the bardes
work on their steamers because they
are stronger, healthier and stand the
climate better than Englishmen. and
because not being meat eaters-theil
diet costs only six cents per day.
There are miners in the English coal
pits, the hardest workers in the land,
who have not eaten any kind OF meat
for years. l am not a vegetarian, be-
cause l banker after the flesh pots.
and their savory odors cast a spell
over my innocent soul; yet expert.
mented for one whole year without
tasting flesh or gravy in any form. and
! all the time my health was perfect and
my weight increased. The dock pOr-
tiers of Constantinople carry heavier
rdens-two hundred and fifty pounds
and upward-more easily than the
laborers of England and America, yet
their main diet is bread and figs. and
they are teetotal and vegetarian. The
laborers in Spain live chiefly on bread
and onions. and are marvelOusly
strong
The fesh-and-blood superstition is
bascless. A horse is almost as strong:
swift, healthy and handsome rs two
legged man, and they both have the
same internal machinery; the one eats
beef and enjoys dyspepsia the other
avoids it and flourishes. Ten cents
worth or meat, oatmeal, rice. fruits,
buttermilk, bread. cheese, onions or
portions of several of these, will enable
man to do his ordinary days work
at least as well as any assortment OF
goods he can buy for a dollar.
What would be good diet for those
who do not need to study their urses.
yet who would like a simple. healthy
and enjoy able dietary? To such 1
would say drop the heavy meat break
fast right away. Not that meat is bad,
but it is NOS the best to start the day
on. Bread (not the spoiled white
stuff. but the natural dark-colored
wheat. as ground). tea or cocoa, eggs
and the hundred and one non-fesh
dishes. with a little fish, and as much
fruit as you like. That a model meal,
as experience will prove.
Talking Of fish. the more the BETTER
Pound for pound it is as nutritious as
flesh, though it doesn't seem to fill us
SO fully. and its chemical value is far
above that Of meats. When l have
extra hard brain work to do, say an
average of twelve or fourteen hours
for two or three weeks at stretch, ]
knock off meats entirely and eat all
the fish l can. RESULT, perfect health
and strength and no headaches.
For dinner, fish. soups q am not cx-
GLIDING meat. though soups can be
made without it that taste just the same
and are quite as good every way. pud.
dings. desserts
l knew an eminent lady who for
forty years had never tasted meat. She
was a marvel of mental and physic-
al strength. Another author friend
kept his health and his average weight
of one hundred and sixty pounds on
a diet that never included meat. the
average cost Of his food being only
six cents per day. Another. WELL
known literary man, who looked as
beefy as a butcher. was, when Hast
met him. in his eighth year of stric,
abstinence from flesh. Another
friend. hard literary worker, has
been practically lifelong vegetarian.
but he looks too shriveled up to he Il
champion specimen. -Ric hmond (Va.)
Dispatch.